INVESTIGATION OF THE FUK-SEAL INDUSTRY OE ALASKA. 419 



Jordan hopes that Elliott will 

 approve "an effort" which will 

 enable the pelagic sealers "to 

 realize" on their " rights": 



Leland Stanford 



Junior University, 

 Stanford University, Cal., 



November 6, 1909. 



Mr. Henry Wood Elliott, 



Cleveland, Ohio. 



Dear Sir: I have received from the 

 Bureau of Fisheries a letter from you to 

 Secretary Nagel, concerning the author- 

 ship of a chart which was inserted in my 

 preliminarv report on the fur seals in 

 1896. 



Elliott denies the " rights" of 

 the pelagic sealers, and hopes that 

 they will never get a penny for 

 them: 



17 Grace Avenue, 

 Lakewood, Ohio, November 3, 1909. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, 



Stanford University, Cal. 

 Dear Sir: Your letter of the 6th instant 

 has been duly received. With regard to 

 that appearance of my track chart in your 

 report of 1896, you seem to be not quite 

 clear in your mind as to how it got in there 

 as it did. Perhaps the following state- 

 ment of fact may help you to know its 

 publication there without that credit 

 given to me as its author which is indis- 

 putably mine. 



* * * * 



With regard for the "rights" of those 

 Victorian sea wolves, I hope that they 

 will never get a penny for their rotting 

 vessels or their "good will. " They have 

 had far, far too much already at the ex- 

 pense of humanity and decency. Let 

 their vessels rot, and let their owners rot 

 with them. 



Very truly, yours, 



Henry W. Elliott. 



I take this opportunity to express the 

 hope that you may approve of the effort to 

 establish a modus vivendi for a time, 

 without killing on land or sea, until the 

 matter of pelagic sealing can be finally 

 settled. To lease the islands again as 

 things are would be a farce. I see some 

 hope that an energetic discussion with 

 Japan would be successful, and the Vic- 

 toria people are anxious to realize on their 

 rights. 



Very truly, yours, 



David Starr Jordan. 



To deceive Congress and influence pending legislation, Dr. Jordan 

 sends the following false and defamatory telegram, which was used 

 on the floor of the House of Representatives February 7, 1912; de- 

 bate onH. R. 1671: 



Palo Alto, Cal., February 5, 1912. 

 Hon. Wm. Sulzer, 



House of Representatives , Washington, D. C: 



To incorporate a clause establishing in. fur-seal bill a close season prohibiting killing 

 of superfluous males would do no good to herd, but would kill treaty. No one knows 

 this better than the pelagic sealers' lobby, which for 20 years has been led by Henry 

 W. Elliott. 



David Starr Jordan. 



THE DEADLY PARALLEL. 



Jordan reports that the Rus- 

 sians killed males and females 

 alike — no discrimination: 



Prussian management. — * * * Un- 

 der the earlier years of its regime (Russian 

 American Co.), however, the seals were 

 indiscriminately slaughtered, females as 

 well as males, * * *. (Fur Seal In- 

 vestigations, Part 1, 1898, p. 102.) 



But Bishop Veniaminov, who 

 spent the season of 1825 on St. 

 Paul Island, denies Jordan's re- 

 port. 



[Translated by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger of Dr. Jor- 

 dan's party.] 



The taking of fur seals commences in 

 the latter days of September. * * *. 

 The sikatchie and the females having 

 been removed, the others are carefully 

 driven to the place where they are to be 

 killed, sometimes more than 10 versts 

 distance * * *. 



When brought to the killing grounds the 

 seals are rested for an hour or more, ac- 

 cording to circumstances, and then killed 

 with a club. 



